[Sloth]

I wish they had not made Dooku a tool of Palpatine. It would be a much more interesting dilemma for the audience if the secessionists were honestly worried about the decline / decadence / moral & political decay of the old Republic and just wanted to be left alone.

[SlickWillard]

I wish they had not made Dooku a tool of Palpatine. It would be a much more interesting dilemma for the audience if the secessionists were honestly worried about the decline / decadence / moral & political decay of the old Republic and just wanted to be left alone.

I'm with you. I thought that particular plot twist ruined the entire movie, if not the series. Imagine a much more tragic outcome: Dooku and his allies are fueled by their hatred of the tyrant Palpatine. The Jedi, in their arrogance, gather all their powers, and, in concert with the genocidal abomination that is the clone army, they crush Dooku and the rebellion. When in despair and horror they realize they have been manipulated by Palpatine and The Dark Side, there is no recourse: They have killed Dooku, the only one among their ranks who had the power and the integrity to challenge Palpatine, and they must flee in cowardice, as Skywalker hunts them down and mercilessly assassinates them.